Shuttleworth - Fly Navy!

Posted in 2017

... Hawker Fury, the last real piston fighter, was flown. The Fury was the Royal Navy’s last piston fighter and still saw operational use during the Suez Crisis, when the first jets were also already operational. ...

Flying Legends Duxford 2014

Posted in 2014

... f the remaining Spitfires began. airshows/14_dux/static This started a continuos flow of piston engine-only flying displays, usually commencing with a formation fly-by before starting individual displa ...

La Ferte-Alais

Posted in 2012

... s/12_lfa/wwii airshows/12_lfa/yak More piston power from this era was presented by a Mustang, Spitfire, Sea Fury and the Red Bull P-38 Lightning: airshows/12_lfa/p51 airshows/12_lfa/spitfire airshows/ ...

Shuttleworth Mil. Pageant

Posted in 2011

... Miles Magister and the Percival Piston Provost. airshows/11_swmp/trainer1 airshows/11_swmp/trainer airshows/11_swmp/po2 The planned Vampire T11 had to be cancelled due to an engine change, but wa ...

Flying Legends

Posted in 2010

Duxford – Flying Legends airshow. Once you have been there once it is quite difficult not to come back, as this show offers a real blast of piston engine powered aircraft. No jets, no noise, just pure ...

NLD Piestany - Slovak Air Show

Posted in 2008

... at really showed off what can be done with a piston-powered aircraft of that size. Tight turns, low fly-bys – if only the sun would have been out a bit more often for some nice photos… Ae-145 and Li-2 ...

Hahnweide Meeting

Posted in 2005

... of course impossible for me to mention all of them, but what I am still remembering is the DHC 1Chipmunk in elegant Lufthansa colours, the strange sound of the piston engine powered Sikorsky S-58 helicopter ...

Flying Legends 2004

Posted in 2004

... e crowd. Than for the next three hours there an uninterrupted sound of piston engines was in the air. If you were standing at the right place along the crowdline the take-offs passed directly over you a ...

Coventry Classics

Posted in 2003

The sound of piston engines filled the air at Coventry Airfield, Warwickshire, UK, the week-end of the 31st May, 1st June. It was one of the few rare airshows that give the possibility to see the beautiful ...